Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 Only a Ripe Fruit Falls

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I FEEL THAT THROUGH DEVELOPING AN ATTITUDE OF ENDURANCE TOWARDS DIFFICULTIES, I HAVE BECOME RESIGNED TO MUCH OF LIFE.

THIS RESIGNATION FEELS LIKE A WEIGHT PUSHING AGAINST MY EFFORT TO BECOME MORE ALIVE IN MEDITATION.

DOES THIS MEAN THAT I HAVE SUPPRESSED MY EGO, AND THAT I MUST FIND IT AGAIN BEFORE I CAN REALLY LOSE IT?

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 The Mystery of Relationship

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WOULD YOU TALK TO US ABOUT OUR LIVING PARTNERS - OUR WIVES, HUSBANDS AND LOVERS.

WHEN SHOULD WE PERSEVERE WITH A PARTNER, AND WHEN SHOULD WE ABANDON A RELATIONSHIP AS HOPELESS - OR EVEN DESTRUCTIVE?

AND ARE OUR RELATIONSHIPS INFLUENCED BY PREVIOUS LIVES?

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 Are You Still Carrying her?

BELOVED OSHO,

THERE IS A ZEN STORY ABOUT TWO MONKS WHO WERE RETURNING TO THEIR MONASTERY.

WHILE WALKING AHEAD, THE OLDER MONK CAME TO A RIVER. ON THE BANK THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL. SHE WAS AFRAID TO CROSS ALONE. THE OLD MONK QUICKLY LOOKED AWAY FROM HER AND CROSSED THE RIVER.

WHEN HE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE HE LOOKED BACK, AND TO HIS HORROR HE SAW THE YOUNGER MONK CARRYING THE GIRL ACROSS THE RIVER ON HIS SHOULDERS.

THE TWO MONKS CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY SIDE BY SIDE. WHEN THEY WERE JUST OUTSIDE THE MONASTERY GATES THE OLDER MONK SAID TO THE YOUNGER: THAT WAS NOT GOOD, THAT WAS AGAINST THE RULES, WE MONKS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH WOMEN.

THE YOUNGER MONK REPLIED: I LEFT HER ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER, ARE YOU STILL CARRYING HER?

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 Dropping the Ego Now

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU SAID THE EGO CAN BE DROPPED THIS VERY MOMENT.

CAN THE EGO ALSO BE DROPPED PROGRESSIVELY?

The dropping always happens in the moment and always in THIS moment. There is no progressive, gradual process for it. There cannot be. The happening is instantaneous. You can't get ready for it, you can't prepare for it, because whatsoever you do - and I say whatsoever - will strengthen the ego.

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 All Hopes are False

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU HAVE BEEN TELLING US HOW EASY IT IS TO DROP OUR EGOS AND BECOME ONE WITH THE WHITE CLOUD.

YOU HAVE ALSO TOLD US THAT WE HAVE HAD MILLIONS OF LIVES AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN WITH BUDDHAS, KRISHNAS AND CHRISTS - YET STILL WE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP OUR EGOS.

AREN'T YOU CREATING FALSE HOPES IN US?

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 To be Miserable or Ecstatic...?

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU ONCE TOLD US A STORY ABOUT AN OLD MAN WHO WAS OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. ONE DAY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, HE WAS ASKED WHY IT WAS THAT HE WAS ALWAYS HAPPY. HE REPLIED: EVERY MORNING WHEN I WAKE UP I HAVE THE CHOICE TO BE HAPPY

OR UNHAPPY, AND I CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY.

HOW IS IT THAT WE USUALLY CHOOSE TO BE UNHAPPY? HOW IS IT THAT WE DON'T FEEL AWARE OF THE CHOICE?

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 The Mystery Beyond Mind

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

BEAUTIFUL WHITE CLOUD, WHY ARE WE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU WITH US - AND WHY ARE WE WITH YOU?

Why's are always unanswerable. To the mind it seems that whenever you can ask a why it can be answered. But that is one of the fallacious assumptions. No why has ever been answered or can be answered. Existence is - no why about it.

Osho - My Way The Way Of The White Clouds

 The Way of the White Clouds

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHY IS YOUR WAY CALLED THE WAY OF THE WHITE CLOUDS?

Just before Buddha died somebody asked him: When a buddha dies where does he go? Does he survive or simply disappear into nothingness? This is not a new question, it is one of the oldest, many times repeated and asked. Buddha is reported to have said: Just like a white cloud disappearing....

Osho My Way The Way of the White Clouds

Mulla Nasruddin 😃

"Do you love me, Mulla?" whispered the girl.

"Of course I do," Mulla Nasrudin whispered back.

"Will you marry me then?" she asked.

"LET'S NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT?" said Nasrudin.

Osho My Way The Way of the White Clouds 

Osho - Meet Mullah Nasruddin

 Mulla Nasruddin Jokes

1.

"Do you love me, Mulla?" whispered the girl.

"Of course I do," Mulla Nasrudin whispered back.

"Will you marry me then?" she asked.

"LET'S NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT?" said Nasrudin.

Osho Meet Mullah Nasruddin

Osho Meet Mullah Nasruddin  

Do you love me, Mulla?" whispered the girl.

"Of course I do," Mulla Nasrudin whispered back.

"Will you marry me then?" she asked.

"LET'S NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT?" said Nasrudin.